Everyday Routine Quotes

• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Kindness, Freedom

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

  Cate Blanchett

  Simple, Everyday, Routine

  "Cate Blanchett on Philanthropy and Beauty". Interview with Maureen Choi, www.marieclaire.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

  John Zerzan

  Void, Anarchy, Beneath The Surface

  "Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.

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• Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Medicine, Drug, Physicians

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Pain, Impact

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

  Ernst Toller

  War, Soldier, Friendly

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary”, Paragon House Publishers

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• Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.

  Edward S. Jordan

  Love, Crush, Adventure

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• This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Challenges, Mundane

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• ..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Unique, Special

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  Max Weber

  Men, Hands, Careers

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Culture, Taught, Natural

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